I thought the book was quite repetitive as well. I think Chris was referring to his articles in the London Review of Books and the New Left Review. I find it funny that Tariq Ali's brand of "anti-imperialism" can be published in the NLR month after month without no one mentioning a thing, but WBM would provoke such a stir.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
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> I didn't find anything about his rhetorical style that was provocative.
> Instead, I found him boring and repetitive. This might be from years steeped
> in the literature, I don't know. But if you read him, he pretty much says
> the same thing over and over and over again. I got the impression his target
> audience was college sophomores, so maybe they need the repetition.
>
> shag
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